Bob Roe Email & Phone Number

Redwood City & Tokyo

As Vice-President, Narrative Development at Sozo Ventures, I help everyone at Sozo find and tell better stories, on every platform. More on us | www.Sozo.Ventures.

New York City

>Supervised edit team of over 40 people>Ran video team, which made over 100 videos per year for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok>Conceptualized, staffed and edited on-line education magazine

Greater New York City Area

> Led complete overhaul of print and digital teams and content> Tripled digital traffic> Led award-winning coverage on a wide range of topics, including President Trump’s work ethic (“Lazy Boy”) and why both the Left and Right hate higher education (“The War on College”) > Won design awards for provocative covers on Trump, #MeToo, America’s obsession with guns and the decades-long cover-up of pedophile priests (see links below)

> Collaborated with Editor-In-Chief to bring legendary title back from the dead, working on all business, digital and social media strategies as well as all staffing and editorial decisions> Built a vibrant website with 10K monthly UVs and magazine up from nothing > Supervised full staff of 50 editors, writers, web producers, copy editors, designers, photo editors> Top-edited all magazine content > Wrote all display type for magazine

Greater New York City Area

> Assigned and edited all content for high-end quarterly magazine targeting the .01%, the first issue of which was made available as a PDF and got 250,000 downloads in a week. Edited pieces on topics ranging from the near-collapse of Wall Street in 2008 to the best parties at Davos... and how to snag an invite> Partnered with designers on the conception and execution of all layouts and covers

Lmk

> Conceptualized, designed and supervised the build of 1,500 news-based, single topic iPhone apps (including Beyoncé, Bill Gates, Tom Brady, Barack Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kim Kardashian… )> Curated the content for all 1,500 apps through templates> Built an integrated series of news-based website verticals on multiple topics, ranging from business to the NBA to reality TV, and from Silicon Valley to celebrity gossip> Supervised full tech team on all programming challenges, as well as all UI and UX issues

Nyc

> Helped conceptualize and launch one of Condé Nast’s most ambitious (and expensive) titles > Created sections, assigned stories and top-edited content for Portfolio.com > Recruited and edited top writers, including Michael Lewis, Michael Kinsley and Kurt Eichenwald > Wrote and top-edited all display copy for magazine> Created award-winning photo essays that paired leading photographers and writers

Nyc

> Top-edited all parts of the magazine, from captions to 10,000-word features> Conceived and selected content for multiple SI-branded books, including 50th Anniversary Best Of… coffee table book and the 50th Anniversary Best Of... anthology> Conceived, assigned and edited multiple special issues, including award-winning 50th anniversary issues> Conceptualized, wrote and co-produced SI-branded TV shows in partnerships with Fox, CBS and HBO> Edited the annual Swimsuit Issue (arguably the most successful stand-alone in publishing history)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Philosophy & Psychology

Grad School, Literature, Then Journalism